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A little background info: The Kingdom of Italy went from 1861-1946. Many coins were issued during that time. I'm Italian so I want to collect one of each type of coin from that era. I wanted to ask, what is the best world coin catalog that I should buy for this? Is there a specific one you all use that would have what I'm looking for? Any help is appreciated. Here is a 1920-R 10 centesimi. It was given to me by my grandfather, a coin collector, who has since passed. I was always fascinated by that coin, it is the one that inspired me to do this. Isn't it a beautiful design?   Edited by wheatchaser140
11/25/2013 05:53 am
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Thanks for the info, nalaberong. The numista online catalog seems sufficient to my needs. Now to start acquiring new pieces!  Edited by wheatchaser140
11/24/2013 2:38 pm
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Germany
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Whatch out for modern forgeries, especially with the popular 5 lire silver coins! They are everywhere and con look quite convincing on ebay... |
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United States
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Are there any other fakes I should look out for? I might just start out buying the more inexpensive nonprecious metal coins.
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United States
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Speaking of precious and nonprecious metals, a lot of the coins (especially the gold) is WAY out of my price range. What is your advice for this?
Is it considered acceptable to leave out some issues of a type set that are just far too expensive? For example, do American type collectors sometimes leave out the Saint-Gaudens $20 gold piece or the Chain Reverse Large Cent?
To be quite honest, I doubt I'll ever spend hundreds of dollars on a coin. It's just not my thing. I just do it for the enjoyment as a hobby, not really spending tons of money on valuable coins. What's your opinion?
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Canada
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Well just look at the us type set dansco 7070. It leaves out the gold page and you have to buy that seperately. It would be completely ok if you left the gold out.
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Canada
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I don't think anyone would judge you for narrowing it down the way you want... no matter if it's "all non-gold past 1900", "all Vittorio Emmanuele III non-gold", "all base-metal", "all 20th-century base-metal", etc. Most countries have such turbulent histories that a full type set is completely impossible.
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There's an Italian catalog which I bought on a trip to Italy, might be hard to get in book shops, but you could try on ebay or Amazon or some other site like that. I bought a US Red Book for like $1 on Amazon a few years back, it was kind of old and had been in a library, but it was still good. |
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The OP coin (well, a different example of the same type) was one of the coins I've considered, at various times[1], to be the most beautiful coin in my collection (though for this particular type I had to add that, while the reverse is incredible, the obverse with the king's face is ugly). On-topic: for type sets that don't involve anything too early, Numista is usually the best choice. (I didn't use it for my one-kopek type set, but it did get into "too early".) [1] this also included - at various other times - an 1917-S Mercury dime, two different "orange and lions" Netherlands Wilhelmina cents, a Taisho-era Japanese 5 sen, an incredibly beautiful "Taisho 10" (1921) Japanese 1 sen, and probably a few other coins I forgot |
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